Eoin McSweeney, and Mostafa Salem, CNN • Published 4th May 2021
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(CNN) High resolution photos have been revealed for the first time of an ancient religious stone in Mecca, Islam s holy city, a Saudi government agency has announced.
The images of al-Hajar al-Aswad, or the Black Stone, are up to 49,000 megapixels in size and took more than 50 hours to photograph and develop, the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Saudi Grand Mosque and the Prophet s Mosque said in a press release Monday.
The General Presidency worked with the Two Holy Mosques engineering agency to take 1,050 photos of the stone, each being 160 gigabytes. The stone was photographed for seven hours, the authority said.
The Black Stone of Mecca like you’ve never seen before
High resolution photos have been revealed for the first time of an ancient religious stone in Mecca, Islam’s holy city, a Saudi government agency has announced.
The images of al-Hajar al-Aswad, or the Black Stone, are up to 49,000 megapixels in size and took more than 50 hours to photograph and develop, the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Saudi Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque said in a press release Monday.
The General Presidency worked with the Two Holy Mosques’ engineering agency to take 1,050 photos of the stone, each being 160 gigabytes. The stone was photographed for seven hours, the authority said.
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